yea he brought this on himself by arriving hours before the first match. but it was definitely worth it, financially..
UK Open 2026, London, May 26-31
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yea he brought this on himself by arriving hours before the first match. but it was definitely worth it, financially..
Frankie Hernandez has been a fixture in the American pool scene for decades. It may be that you're not as familiar with the New York City pool scene. At one point, the Seminole Tribe of Florida sponsored five players, and Frankie was one of them, along with Corey Deuel, Joey Korsiac, and I forget the other two. Frankie also worked full-time, but he continued to be a regular on the American pool tournament trial, to include the weekend regional tours like Joss NE 9-Ball Tour.
I'm not saying he lost because he didn't practice beforehand, but in my opinion, not being able to run a few racks of balls before a match seems odd in a professional tournament. And I understand 100 percent his frustration after expending that amount of money to be there. I'm not sure why anyone would find this funny.
And FWIW, I've never heard of you either, but that doesn't mean you're not capable of playing pool on a higher level, unless you're one of the chattering railbirds who wants to appear as if they're a pool aficionado. Okay, Bro?
U.S. Open
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Yeah not quite there yet, still has some growing to do. I'm not out on him though
Yep.
On Table 4, there is a Vietnamese player and they have Vietnamese commentators. I think that's a nice addition since there are normally commentators only on the main table.
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Yep, it's a bit unfortunate - it rarely gets that hot, and if it does it'll be July or August. To be fair though, there are plenty of large air conditioned venues. It never ceases to amaze me that, when in the UK, I can walk into a high street chain store that has the AC on when the ambient outside temperature is between 17 and 23 degrees. Even when it's 14 or 26 that's ridiculous.
And while we are here let's go a step further - even in hot countries you don't need AC most of the time - unless it is really hot. We've all seen the old pool vids from the Philippines (and there are plenty of Sinuca vids from Brazil) where people didn't say, "it's too hot". They just play and make their shots.
In a WNT post-match interview with snooker champion Stuart Bingham, he mentioned that the snooker tour had an event in this same venue during winter months. He said it was really cold inside, and the snooker players complained, weren't too happy —- or words to that effect.|
He also mentioned his 50th birthday was this week, and that if he's still in it, his wife had made plans for the family to celebrate this weekend.
shouldnt be on the tv table either way imo. slow, boring..
they had one of those video feature clip of some players trying to juggle a football on the lawn outside. some managed 10, some 4, etc. felix vogel just kept kicking and managed to keep the ball in the air 140 kicks. impressive. (my record is 44)
tyler was reading the chat
we are back baby, tyler the german stopper! fills last year, his protege this year who is next. where is vogel he can get it too
Hmm it's a shot-clock match. And he sent Moritz home.